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A flooded street
Podcast: four countries working together to get climate finance to the local level
… crisis is likely to entrench or deepen existing poverty. By signing up to the Paris Agreement, the global community has committed to …
News, 22 April 2020
Three asks for the G7 leaders
… climate finance for vulnerable countries. G7 deliberations in the run-up to the summit have not come through on this crucial issue. …
News, 28 May 2021
Multifaceted approach best way for vulnerable countries to overcome climate losses and damage
News, 27 July 2022
Group of people posing for a photo
Making strides to improve health and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s cities
… with arthritis and the disabled are worse off. In October we wake up as early as 2am and come back at about 11am...” Climate change is … when it is very hot, but safe water is not easy to get, so we end up drinking less and just stay indoors.” Successful policy engagements – …
Insight, 24 August 2021
Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
… speak fair: end poverty, reduce inequality, better jobs, and clean up our environment are just some of these goals… And they speak sense , … to real life. The SDGs were signed in New York but their delivery is up to all of us. An exciting outcome of the Plan Vivo conference is a …
Insight, 15 October 2015
Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
… participants.   You can review the CBA14 side events below. Sign up for individual sessions using the registration links. Introduction to …  These sessions are for registered participants only. Registration: Sign up via the event platform. Twitter chat: CBA14 – from local …
News, 31 August 2020
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"
COP27 and the important year ahead
… – but also the distance still to travel, as the countries signed up represent less than 1% of global production. But if all this is to … get a good start on the process of tightening definitions and working up to far bigger volumes of climate finance for 2025, based on an … if COP26 is to deliver on its promise: All countries need to step up on reducing emissions. The big G20 middle-income countries are …
Insight, 22 November 2021
The logo of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Image: UNFCCC, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP)
… the global problem of climate change. The countries that have signed up to the UNFCCC meet each year at the Conference of Parties (COP) to …
Article, 18 November 2015
Aerial view of a flooded village. Only roofs and vegetation are visible.
Action on climate resilience is business critical
Insight, 12 May 2023
Community group siting in a circle and listening to a speaker
Raising ambition in locally-led action for 2021: calling for business unusual
… principles call on all climate finance and adaptation stakeholders to sign up, and demand they tell us how they can do more to take adaptation …
News, 16 November 2020